NEW: GOP lawmakers overcame Democrats’ opposition to advance a funding bill to the that proposes cuts to the IRS, Securities and Exchange Commission, and District of Columbia, while providing a slight increase to the GSA buildings fund. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

Paper Checks: At least 2 million taxpayers, many expecting refund checks, instead got letters from the IRS that said they put incorrect or omitted bank account information on their return. That's meant weeks of waiting for some, who can least afford it buff.ly/fA6D9S3

NEW: Sen. Elizabeth Warren slammed proposed IRS rules scrapping reporting requirements for complex partnerships, saying in a letter that it neutralizes one of the few remaining tools the agency has to identify abusive partnership transactions. buff.ly/MOctm5v

NEW: Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, sound the alarm on proposed IRS rules that drop reporting on complex partnerships. The move could strip away a key tool to catch abusive transactions, they write to Treasury officials

NEW: An energy company that claimed $370 million in alternative fuel tax credits for burning the liquid natural gas in its tankers is getting questions from Finance ranker Ron Wyden who called the credit a “novel and highly questionable tax position." news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

NEW: Republicans released their funding proposal for agencies that include Treasury/IRS, GSA, DC, shaving a $1 billion from current funding. The legislation calls for $10.2 billion for IRS ~9% cut from fy 2026, and $792 million for DC, a 9.8% cut. buff.ly/KjdGZpz

NEW Senators are introducing legislation that would provide tens of billions of dollars funding to the IRS, undoing a series of clawbacks. buff.ly/zfzKbtD

Taxpayers with tip and overtime income were more likely to know about the GOP’s 2025 tax-and-spending law and more likely to file their taxes early, a sign of potential enthusiasm about the law’s new breaks, a new Bipartisan Policy Center survey found. buff.ly/0NAUPJp

New from me: Tax cut proposals from high-profile Democrats come as voters express affordability concerns and after many Democrats embraced President Donald Trump’s campaign proposals-turned-policies of tax breaks for tips and overtime buff.ly/3vY7tyP

On NASA’s Moon Mission, the Biggest Headache Has Been the Toilet buff.ly/einKmY8

NEW: Trump's budget request includes a $1.4 billion cut to IRS, which represents almost all of its proposed $1.5 billion reduction to Treasury funding. buff.ly/BqlUFWr

Plants r cool: Over time, the cherry trees planted close together around the basin will at times work together to provide nutrients to the least healthy trees. “That grove of individual trees is going to become one superorganism,” he said.

New from ME: Republicans’ go-to tool to move major recent tax legislation through Congress is an expedited process that allows budget-related bills to pass on a party-line vote, but now lawmakers are eyeing it for other priorities. buff.ly/8ZyYn4K

The son of Sen. Jim Justice is fighting a $21.4 million dollar tax bill, alleging the IRS wrongly repealed refunds stemming from coal mining losses and amended returns claimed on several of the family’s business entities. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

NEW: A House Ways and Means subcommittee scheduled a field hearing on Tuesday, April 14, in Sarasota, Florida, according to three sources familiar with the panel’s plans. buff.ly/u40xRsu

SCOOP: Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kan.) is introducing legislation that would repeal the adjusted taxable income limitation that excludes some global income of US companies. The bill has about a dozen GOP cosponsors. buff.ly/xf1GnKl

ICYMI: A bill aimed at strengthening the IRS whistleblower program sailed through Wednesday’s House Ways and Means Committee markup with no opposition. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

GOP Sen. Rick Scott is the latest public figure to sue Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. for the recovery of inflicted damages caused by the company and its former IRS contractor who leaked thousands of private tax returns to the New York Times and ProPublica. buff.ly/g046tFI

Sen. John Kennedy stands in front of a patriotic floor chart while discussing the SAVE Act voting bill being considered on the Senate floor.

Last year in D.C., rejected tags ranged from “DEI” and “ELONSUX” to “THXDOGE” and “SH1TBOX.”

Middle-class tax cuts, paid for with millionaire levies, should be part of future Dems' tax plans, Chris Van Hollen says. It's representative of ideas irking progressives questioning if new revenue should instead be used for easing child poverty, job losses or housing costs. buff.ly/vQbgSMp

The White House is “ignoring or evading” requirements for Senate-confirmed leadership at the IRS, Senate Democrats wrote in a new letter. buff.ly/o6hurZ7

LDA news: Excited to lead my first #NICAR26 session today on LobbyR, an R package I developed that turns federal lobbying disclosures into structured data. It’s a lot easier with than using the site! Check it out on CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=lobbyR schedules.ire.org/nicar-2026/#...

NEW: DC taxpayers should file their taxes as if the city’s tax code deviations from federal law are in effect, the DC CFO says. But litigation risk and other factors means he can’t report how much revenue will be raised by decoupling from the GOP tax law.

NEW: GOP senators want Treas. Sec. Scott Bessent to provide additional tax relief on capital gains without Congress. Sens. Ted Cruz and Tim Scott argue that Bessent has the authority to define cost basis, and say it would help boost housing supply. buff.ly/nXnoD3v

NEW: Senate Finance leaders released new tax administration legislation following last year's discussion draft, which has dozens of changes to tax collection procedures and administration. It keeps provisions allowing IRS to regulate tax return preparers. buff.ly/PNUxcXf

BAT on Deck? Congress’ Joint Economic Committee is set to hold a hearing March 4 on the feasibility and design of a border-adjusted tax, after the US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs. buff.ly/lDGbnWg

The resolution passed by Congress two weeks ago failed to roll back a Washington, DC, tax law and shouldn’t upend filing season in the nation’s capital, the district’s top legal officer found in an opinion issued Tuesday. buff.ly/YnQTonq

Penny rounding is in full effect at a local DC grocery chain.

A GOP measure President Donald Trump signed Wednesday to block a local Washington tax law is all-but-certain to prompt legal challenges—possibly even from residents of the nation’s capital. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

The US Senate's action to thwart a Washington, DC, measure has thrown a wrench into the filing season that opened Jan. 26, requiring the district to change its tax code to align with the federal law. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

The Homeland Security Department and the IRS must provide an exact accounting of which taxpayers’ information was recently disclosed and whether it led to improper detentions or deportations, a letter from Senate Democrats said. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

The US Supreme Court scheduled Feb. 20 as its next opinion day amid a global wait for a ruling that could invalidate most of President Donald Trump’s signature tariffs. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

The Senate cleared legislation Thursday to repeal a Washington, DC, tax law that deviates from federal law, but local officials say the Senate was too late. That may mean further legal action over how the Home Rule Act’s 30-day review period is defined buff.ly/mGgVmjB

Senate Republicans beat back an effort by Democrats to roll back Trump administration guidance on how the corporate alternative minimum tax should apply to partnerships and their partners. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

Business groups and other stakeholders are at odds over how the IRS’s proposed rules on the GOP tax law’s new tax break for tips treats automatic gratuities. news.bloomberglaw.com/product/tax/...

NEW: A bipartisan group of House lawmakers called on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to finalize implementation rules for the Section 45Z credit that prioritizes North American feedstocks. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

Tax prep companies are close to a long-held goal of scrapping the IRS Direct File program, and spent millions this year to further that aim, among other policies, federal lobbying disclosures show. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

POD: What may get Republicans to reintroduce the "revenge tax" and what's happening in US talks to get agreement on the US tax system coexisting with Pillar 2? Find out on this week's Talking Tax as I discuss this and more with PWC principal Beth Bell buff.ly/uSdk7zO

IRS Files Tax Lien Against Sen. Jim Justice in West Virginia news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

New from me: The US Tax Court’s move to cancel two weeks of trials due to the government shutdown is threatening to jam up the busy system. The canceled trial sessions will likely spur further delays in litigation as a skeleton crew of IRS attorneys triages cases. buff.ly/YWV2ZxC

A federal judge threw out a defamation lawsuit filed by two IRS agents against Hunter Biden’s attorney, finding that the lawyer’s statements were constitutionally protected opinions. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

The US Supreme Court’s conservatives suggested they will restrict the creation of majority-Black and majority-Hispanic voting districts in a case that could further undercut a landmark civil rights law and bolster Republican electoral prospects. news.bloomberglaw.com/product/blaw...

NEW from me: President Donald Trump’s campaign promise of a tax break on overtime enjoys wide support, but implementation has been a slow roll and is spurring confusion for businesses and workers ahead of next year’s filing season. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

NEW: The Trump administration has begun firing workers at the IRS and Treasury Department, as it tries to leverage mass layoffs in the standoff over government funding in Congress. It’s unclear how many employees will be impacted. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

Podcast: On this week's Talking Tax, I sat down with Pete Sepp, president of the National Taxpayers Union. He said Congress is right to seek answers on how the CEO may interact with a commissioner, and concerns that many top IRS positions remain open. buff.ly/gsbClaT

Scoop w/ @reportercioffi.bsky.social: The Trump administration assured Sen. Chuck Grassley that they plan to name a new nominee to lead the IRS, even as the Treasury Department names new de facto leadership, according to the tax writer's office. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

Scoop: America’s largest lobbyist for manufacturers is urging the Treasury Department to issue business-friendly guidance on key provisions from July’s tax law. news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

New: Tax writers and their crypto allies hope to leverage a hearing in the Senate Finance Committee tomorrow to build on momentum for a new taxation regime for digital assets, including a suite of key asks from the industry. w/ @reportercioffi.bsky.social news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

Thune and Schumer engaging in a live debate- Thune holding CR says it funds government until Nov 21, argues Democrats will have the same leverage then that they have now. Schumer accuses GOP of refusing to negotiate on Dems' demands, and calls for a return to the table